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Peer reviewedAmster, Judith B.; Lazarus, Philip J. – Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1982
Normative data collected on 197 disadvantaged high school dropouts on the dimension of internal-external control indicate this group appears to be external, but not markedly so. A short-term intervention program designed to improve academic and vocational skills did not appear to affect locus of control of 33 subjects. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Counseling, Disadvantaged Youth, Dropouts
Bonnet, Deborah G.; And Others – 1978
A study was conducted of Indiana's Summer Programs for the Education and Development of Youth (SPEDY) to describe the program themselves and to study the programs' effect on participants' short-term career education attitudes, knowledge, and skills. SPEDY is a training for public-sector work program operated each summer for about ten weeks for…
Descriptors: Career Development, Career Education, Career Planning, Disadvantaged Youth
